- From: Abigail <abigail@ny.fnx.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:22:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye wrote: ++ ++ And what of existing graphics? How will programs know what to scale (for ++ WYSIWYG size correction) and what to leave at pixel size? There is no ++ meta information like that in existing formats, so you'll need new graphic ++ formats to support those ultra-high resolution screens. Or must we throw ++ away all existing bitmap graphics and redo everything as vector art? That ++ would be a huge task and not backward compatible. Think web! The _user agent_ knows all it needs to know. What the display is and what the graphics format is. If it's an traditional bitmap and a high-resolution display, it might decide to resize. And if it's a vector description, it'll do what it has to do. This is not something you should (or even *can*) solve at the server side. Abigail
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